In a fortnight, when the UPA government celebrates its first anniversary it might be disappointed to note that the mood...
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30.042005July 15, 2015
Maximum City, Minimum Programme
In the middle of the commotion in Parliament over the past two weeks Sonia Gandhi may have noted, probably with...
16.042005July 24, 2015
Purush versus Parivar
Personally, Atal Bihari Vajpayee has admirers across our political spectrum. But even if you are not an admirer, you’d understand...
09.042005July 24, 2015
We need a UPA-NDA bus?
While it is true that our politics has been testing new lows in absurdity of late, a week like this...
02.042005July 24, 2015
The Craft and the Aircraft
The debate on the latest turn in India-US relations has moved between two extremes: from the US again betraying us...
19.032005November 11, 2015
Inside a comic-book coup
Why the Maldivian president needs to be eternally grateful to an unsung Indian frigate captain Earlier this week some newspapers...
12.032005July 24, 2015
A plane tale from the past
This is a story from the summer of 1996 that I had salted away for my memoirs, but am tempted...
05.032005July 15, 2015
Three Steps Backwards
You do not have to be a political pundit to guess what Sonia Gandhi will be asking herself once the...
26.022005November 11, 2015
Stirrings in a Hopeless Land
Nobody goes to Bihar too often. Actually, nobody goes there unless he or she has to. No surprise then that...
19.022005July 24, 2015
Mumbai Shanghaied to Patna
Just a drive around Patna could help you see the ongoing slum demolition controversy in Mumbai in a comprehensive perspective....
05.022005July 15, 2015
It’s Politics, Stupid
If you read the editorials in the pink press they all seem to have major quibbles with this week’s announcement...
29.012005July 24, 2015
Falling off the Davos Map
You have to give it to the Chinese for not beating around the bush when it comes to the big...